290145 SE Cartography and Geoinformation in Early Warning Crises Management: Theory and Practice (2018S)

The objective of the course is to inform, explain, analyze, interpret, and communicate the role of cartography and geo-information in early warning (EW) and crises management (CM) situations and the improvement of their use in adequate operations with the aim to show their up to now under-valued potentials and ways how to integrate the knowledge of the cartographic, geographic, and ICT communities to EW and CM into a wide decision making process.
The new approaches, evaluations, potential solutions and visualizations towards Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) defined for scientific and research fronts by United Nations Conference in Sendai, Japan in 2015, and as well as EU, would be highlighted.

Contents
- Types and specifications of disasters
- Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRM)
- Disaster Risk Reduction Concept (DRR)
- Potentials of Cartography and Geoinformatics in Big Data Era
- Volunteer Geographic Information and Social media for DRR
- Analyze of World best practices and unsucceses in developing and developed countries (hurricane Catrina, Fukushima nuclear power station, Chrnobyl, Bhopal)

Method
- For each main topic, there will be a lecture, group discussions on journal article readings, and a lab.
- Each student will develop a research idea related to any of the above topics. A class workshop will be held in early June to discuss everyone's research idea and design. The idea can, but is not required to, be further developed into the final class project.
- Each student will complete a (mini) final project by the end of the class.